Sabotage: America's Enemies within the CIA

In this groundbreaking new book, best-selling author Rowan Scarborough reveals how CIA bureaucrats are undermining President Bush and the war on terror through disinformation, incompetence, and outright sabotage. Using his first-rate sources in all levels of national security, from field officers to high ranking analysts to former intelligence heads, Scarborough paints a disturbing picture of partisan politics endangering the success of our campaigns abroad and the very lives of our soldiers and agents.

This book reads as if it was written as a Ghost Writer from a high ranking official of the Current Administration. They lay the blame for everything that could possibly have happen politically at the hands of the CIA. Paranoia, blame, actions gone wrong but foremost paranoia of one of the greatest defense agencies in the world. The fact that the CIA was stripped of agents in the country of Iraq during the Clinton administration due to a traitor releasing the names of all agents active in the area has been well documented and the person prosecuted for it was not brought out and was quoted as "a lack of definite hard intelligence" in the decision making. Instead the CIA received the blame for every mistake that the Current Administration has unlawfully done in that area.
Obvious transfer of blame for unlawful acts by this Administration to our greatest asset in the international defense agency stands out in the book. This book reads to me as if written by the present Administration to unload their quick "weekend decisions" to commit every unlawful act they have done and lay the blame elsewhere and anywhere they can.
I'm not convinced of the facts having read other accounts in the news and from other authors, nor convinced of the lack of peoples rights to tell their side of the stories "While the Current Administration is in Office".
I find this book very politically motivated and the author finds fault in people in past power's rights to avoid the obvious pending blame from others by writing their sides of the story backed up with facts in many books and news articles quoted here while as the author points out "the President is still in office", beating the Administration in the "political blame game" which seems to have upset this author. That seemed to be the underlying theme to this book. Other writers didn't have the freedom to publish while the present Administration is in office, instead of allowing their facts to stand on their own rights.

How to Spot a Liar

Have you ever been lied to? Of course you have, whether you knew it or not. Ever caught a spouse, business partner, parent, boss, or child brazenly lying right to your face? What if you could tell someone was lying, just by listening to them, and observing their action and behavior? Here's the first audiobook that gives you the tools to figure out what's really going on.

I found this book to be highly educational in the ways that humans communicate without knowing it. This book (I ordered the hard copy) has started my quest for more information on the subject. Highly recommended by this listener.

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Last summer, The New Yorker published chef Anthony Bourdain's shocking, "Don't Eat Before Reading This." Now, the author uses the same "take-no-prisoners" attitude in his deliciously funny and shockingly delectable audiobook, sure to delight gourmands and philistines alike.

If you've ever worked in a kitchen, this is how it really is. Not how it "should" be, but most of the time how it actually is. This book is written by Anthony, but could have thousands of other names as the writer. But only he, it seems, could have put it in the words that he has. A great tribute from all of us that have gone through it.
This is a must read for anyone even remotely interested in the writer (good or bad), ready to eat in a fine food joint (when to order certain foods, when not to, and why), or thinking of working in the kitchen industry. Very well written, full of very logical and technicial facts from the food industry, a very good and enjoyable read, and just down right funny! My very first full 5 star rating and I just don't give those ratings away.
I respect the writer much more after seeing where he came from and what he went through, though I must say I found him entertaining before reading it. This was a wonderful glimpse behind the kitchen doors written by a person able to tell it better than most. Very well done Mr. Bourdain!! Learn from his decisions, and hope to be as fine a Chef as he actually is. Very well written indeed.

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